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DUCHESS
Believe me, Master Doctor, they be the best grapes that I
e’er tasted in my life before.
FAUST
I am glad they content you so, madam.
DUKE
Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this
learned man for the great kindness he hath show’d to you.
DUCHESS
And so I will, my lord; and, whilst I live, rest beholding
for this courtesy.
FAUST
I humbly thank your Grace.
DUKE
Come, Master Doctor, follow us and receive your reward.
[Exeunt.

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SCENE XIII.
A room in Faustus’s House.
Enter WAGNER
WAG
I think my master shortly means to die,
For he hath given to me all his goods;
And yet, methinks, if that death were so near,
He would not banquet and carouse and swill
Amongst the students, as even now he doth,
Who are at supper with such belly-cheer
As Wagner ne’er beheld in all his life.
See where they come! Belike the feast is ended.
Enter FAUSTUS, with two or three SCHOLARS [and
MEPHISTOPHILIS]
1ST SCHOL
Master Doctor Faustus, since our conference about fair
ladies, which was the beautifullest in all the world, we have
determined with ourselves that Helen of Greece was the
admirablest lady that ever lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if

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you will do us that favour, as to let us see that peerless dame
of Greece, whom all the world admires for majesty, we should
think ourselves much beholding unto you.
FAUST
Gentlemen,
For that I know your friendship is unfeigned,
And Faustus’ custom is not to deny
The just requests of those that wish him well,
You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece,
No otherways for pomp and majesty
Than when Sir Paris cross’d the seas with her,
And brought the spoils to rich Dardania.
Be silent, then, for danger is in words.
Music sounds, and HELEN passeth over the stage.